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Computer science terms that sound like fantasy RPG abilities

I'll start:

  • Firewall
  • Virtual Memory
  • Single source of truth
  • Lossless Compression (this one sounds really powerful for some reason)

Your turn

Hard mode: Try not to include closer to domain-specific things like javascript library names

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reroot tree: Tree digs itself out of the ground, walks to another location and takes root, as if it's always been there.

Heap sort: More advanced technique for which Reroot tree is a prerequisite for some reason. Arranges assortments of things into neat piles with only one kind of object per pile. Very useful when looking for things in treasure chambers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

"I cast heap sort on the owlbear."

"..."

"The owlbear is sorted into neat piles, the first containing hair/nails/claws/beaks, the second feathers, the third bone, the fourth meat, the fifth blood.."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Y’all might be interested in the book series by Charles Stross starting with The Atrocity Archives.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Null pointer – sends the victim on a quest they can never fulfill.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago
  • Cache miss
  • Bubble Sort
  • Vectorization
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

spawn daemon

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Multithread
  • Checksum Mismatch
  • Raise Exception
  • Zombie Process
  • Parallelization
  • Segmentation Fault
  • Force Commit
  • Signal Abort
  • Signal Kill
  • Balance Nodes
  • Stack Overflow
  • Core Dump
  • Reverse Tunnel
  • Dynamic Forwarding

I don't know what kind of spells these would be but I fear the wizard who knows them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Power word: Infinite Recursion

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This one’s not quite CS but oh well. Spell check - After a series of unfortunate accidents at the magical university, all novel spells must be submitted to the administration in writing to ensure their safety before first casting.

Root access - Access to the Underdark druid communication network, which is transmitted through a continent-wide system of interconnected tree roots.

Command: Line - A creative use of the command spell that forces an affected creature to spend their turn forming or waiting in an orderly line.

Neural net - The system of control used by an elder brain to control and coordinate illithids under its influence.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Force Merge

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not necessarily PC related, but:

Uninterrupted Power Supply

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Bluetooth sounds like a negative effect. Similar to using Bluetooth in real life.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Master / Slave
  • Gatekeeper
  • Anti virus
  • Force push
  • Bug
  • Forever loop
  • Break condition
  • Real time operating system
  • Blockchain
  • Agility measurement index (not really an ability, but sounds like it could be art of an RPG mechanic)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

BSOD - BLUE SCREEN OF DEAD ☠️

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

PowerShell

Get-Date

Read-Host

Remove-Alias

Remove-Event

Sort-Object

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Spoofing

Cryptojacking

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Authentication tokens - Some heirloom jewelry or letter of permission from the local royal family used to prove you are on their mission.

Gap analysis - when your party finds a crevasse or pit and determines if they can jump across.

Buffer - party member who casts buffs, usually a bard.

Microservices - when you barter with gnomes to repair your gear.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Hyperconvergence or hypervisor.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Ruby gems

Memory leaks

Layers of abstraction

Master branch

Void function

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Null pointer sounds like a powerful spell

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't there a film about saving him?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel like an obvious one is missing: oracle

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Semaphore
  • Spanning tree
  • Spinlock
  • Recursive function
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago
  • Knapsack problem
  • Pushdown automata
  • Zero-knowledge proof
  • Late binding
  • Borrow checker
  • Channel coding
  • Tail recursion
  • Camel case
  • Double float
  • Red-black trees
  • Quaternions

Lossy compression feels like cheating:

  • Block prediction
  • Motion compensation
  • Chroma subsampling
  • Frequency space
  • Time domain
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Mail storm

Perhaps not that deep "cs" but still :D

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  • scroll snapping
  • unit tests
  • vulnerability
  • fastboot
  • root access
  • abstraction level
  • unity framework
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Silicium Bug = A insect creature made of quartz.

Gate Array = An ancient holy temple with partially defunct portals of unknown origin.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Inversion of control
Bsod
Cycle detection
Port knocking

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
  • Higher order function
  • Rijndael cypher
  • Serpent cypher
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Deep magic, black art, heavy wizardry, almost feels like cheating.

I don't even know computer stuff, just picked these up via osmosis.

EDIT: blue screen of death is a very powerful abjuration spell

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Factory Reset

Hotspot

System Corruption

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Binary search

Check bit

Control character

Sentinal value

Escape sequence

EDIT:

Git bisect (not sure if this one counts as computer sciency enough though)

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